Yes, That's a Huge Floating Mass of Live Fire Ants in Texas
Floods make them more venomous and more aggressive.
When there is flooding along the Gulf Coast, there are fire ants. The invasive ants congregate into living rafts, drifting through water until they reach solid ground again. It’s a time-honed survival strategy.
But when there is Hurricane Harvey-level flooding, there are not just small rafts but huge, dense mats of fire ants.
“Holy crap. I have , curator of entomology at University of Texas at Austin, in response to the image below.
